Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007

My old cordless is kaput. It was 2.4 GHz and got static near the
microwave, so I won't really miss it. We are thinking about a wireless
computer network in near future, and should buy the new phone (with
answering machine) with that in mind too.

I have 4 Macs on a primarily PC network using PC Maclan - an iMac running OS9.1.5, an older Mac Power PC running OS 8.5 and recently, because of problems with the older Mac ,which was originall purcahsed to drive an imageseter only, purchased an iMac with OSX 1.5 preinstalled.  I ...

When I change a file extension in Finder I get a warning (as most of
us do, I expect) of the sort "Are you sure you want to change the
extension from .txt to .html?" And I have to click on "use html".
I find this incredibly annoying. Can it be removed in preferences or

I got a notice from Mac mail (my .mac account) today that it couldn't verify the
certificate for mail.mac.com. I looked at the certificate and it gave
Verisign as the issuer, then said the cerificate was valid.
That doesn't make sense to me, but I'm not as clued in as I might be

I posted a little while ago about getting an Atmel USB wireless lan
USB adapter (505-2958) working under MacOS 10.3. I've found the
folling links, but being new to the Mac I'd be most grateful if
someone would help me interpret this in to an actual solution:

A few weeks ago, suddenly, my hp laserjet 2200D hooked up to my
powerMac suddenly started to print with a lot of unwanted background
"shadows" or dirt.  Is it a problem with my toner cartridge?  Or is it
a problem with my printer?

Are the Apple cinema display's over hyped lcd monitors? I've been thinking
of buying a new monitor since I've been using a 19 inch samsung 955df crt
monitor for several years, and I am tired of the wear on my eyes. My friend
who happens to have a lcd tells me all lcd's were ...

In 10.5's finder, you can click on a pictures link to display jpegs in
the finder window and a resize control appears at the bottom of the
window so you can increase or decrease the size of the icons. Is there
any way to make that style appear in regular windows so you can slide

is there any way to filter out this junk?
what is it anyway?
thank you
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I want to experiment and install from an external drive so its faster.  
If I make a mistake, an erase and install should be a lot faster.  Also,
I want to try taking stuff off the install image to see if it still
functions.  

I have a folder of jpegs that I select for the desktop in System
Preferences. In Jaguar, Panther and Tiger this folder was never
superceded by OS on restart or boot from shutdown. But Leopard always
substitutes its desktop picture for my selected folder on restart or

is it possible to set a network route beside the default route on an airport
express?
Regards,
Konstantin

I'm getting a message in my system log every minute or two
Date Time: Machine name kernel[0]: m141d2302
Latest 10.5.1, aluminum iMac...
Nothing in Google

My wife just upgraded her Mac to Leopard. Since I haven't and I do the
backups, I have a couple of basic questions if someone has the time.
My Mac OS X 10.4.10.
What is the relative base size of Leopard vs. Tiger?

What would people recommend for converting PDF to Text that:
    a) can be purchased on CDROM (no downloading)
    b) is compatible with MacOS X 10.5.1
    c) can do this to a document that is 400 pages long